The recent versions of Mac OS X include the System Integrity Protection (SIP) that a number of users enable on their device. It is actually a kernel level feature that limits the root account. A root account is the one that can access your entire Mac operating system and is present in the system by default. Being a root user you can set the permissions, access, delete, and modify the files. Nonetheless, if any malware programs gain control over the root permissions then the operating system files are affected.

Nevertheless, as you specify the password in the security dialog, you give the root permissions for an application. The SIP works by restricting the root account on Mac. The kernel OS checks over the access for root users and restricts certain actions. For instance, you will be not allowed to modify the protected locations in the system. Moreover, almost all the kernel extensions must be signed; you won’t be able to disable the SIP within Mac just like that. Even so, if you attempt to write to it then you will see any of these directories – /bin, /usr, /system or /sbin. You won’t be able to mount and you would eventually see a message that says- Operation not permitted.

Disabling System Integrity Protection

It is actually not recommended to disable the system integrity protector on your Macintosh. If it is to deal with malware threats and other bad/unauthentic program that is causing troubles then you may have to go for it. So, until and unless you do not have any specific reason do not intend to disable the system protection.

The System Integrity Protection is not found in the Mac OS X but in the NVRAM. The modifications can be done in the recovery environment. Boot the Mac into Recovery environment ( Command + R) and navigate through Utilities -> Terminal and type the command as:

csrutil status [to check the status]

csrutil disable [to disable]

if you want to enable the protection again, then use the command as csrutil enable

Recently DropBox has introduced the Smart Sync feature to manage your storage space. As work increases, the need for storage space also grows exponentially. So therewith, Smart Sync feature could of great use to you.

With the synching your files to the DropBox Cloud, you will be able to open the files in the same way you open files normally. With Smart Sync tool you can access the files online; without a local copy of the file in your computer. Smart Sync proves to be ideal for the business environment. It provides an effective means to share and access a massive number of files on the desktop. Hereby it eliminates overburdened files in the computer. Dealing with tons of files and sharing with Smart Sync is indeed much smarter.

The Smart Sync in DropBox is unjust like streaming images or videos. It works by synchronizing and lets you open and edit. After editing the file, it is delivered back to the cloud storage. For all these operations to take place you need to have a seamless internet connection. This smart feature eliminates the overhead on the hard drives to store an extensive number of files.

In addition to this, Smart Sync also provides admin controls which may be essential in an organization. It is indeed effective when an admin controls and decides to share between devices and synchronization. Moreover, when admin adds new members it won’t be an overload to the account or the team folders. Thus, Smart Sync provides much of flexibility in the workplace.

Windows 10 provides user experience and functionality for a vast collection of devices that are compatible with hardware. Hardware detection is an important part which is supported by driver software. Driver software enables communication with the operating system and hardware components.

Uninstall a Driver

Drivers are used to run programs which take help of hardware. They can be problematic because, if in case you install a different driver by mistake then Windows Update will continue to download updates related to that specific driver instead of preferred one.

To block that particular driver you need to stop the driver update from being installed. If you roll back installed the driver then Windows Update will automatically install that driver again which checking for updates.

So in order to uninstall an unnecessary driver in Windows 10, follow simple steps as mentioned below:

Older Mac systems used the SCSI (Small Computers System Interface) to connect the hard drives; both internal and external. However, now Mac uses the SATA connection for the internal drives and USB/Thunderbolt for external HD devices. In the meanwhile, you might come across an old Mac SCSI drive. So with, you want to access the data from it on your current Mac device. It is rather possible to transfer data from the SCSI hard drive on to your modern Mac.

You can make use of Adaptec’s USBXchange in order to connect your old Mac SCSI to a USB storage drive. The device acts as a bridge between your Mac SCSI and the USB storage. You are required to connect the external HD to the USBXchange’s USB port. Then you can easily transfer data and files from the old SCSI drive to the externally connected USB storage.

On the other hand you can purchase a USB card and insert it to the PCI slot of your computer. The data can be then transferred to the USB card and then connect the USB device to copy the data. If not you ca skip back to use the older method. It is using a floppy disk, though they are not in use these days there is no wrong in using them. In fact, it is very easy to get off data from your old SCSI drive. If you don’t have one, you get it at quite cheap rates. So, get a USB floppy drive and connect to your old Mac. Proceed to copy the files to the connected floppy disk. Now connect the floppy drive to the new machine and copy or move the files to a location on your Mac.

Along this, sometimes you might find some troubles in opening the files copied down from the SCSI drive. In fact, there are several factors that can affect the data that is residing on your old SCSI drive. In such a instance, you can perform SCSI data recovery with the help of suitable tools. Remo Recover is once specialised tool that smartly retrieves the data or files from the SCSI drive partitions. Simply download the application on your Mac, connect the SCSI drive and restore required data from it instantly. Remo program is flexible to run on all Mac OS X versions.

There are times when you need to format a partitioned hard drive. This situation may arise when you are installing a new OS, selling your PC or laptop to others or to create a backup for your system. In any case, you have to format the hard drive in order to maintain the data integrity. Continue reading to know how to format a partitioned hard drive.

Learn how to use Disk Management to format your hard disk drive

Disk Management is a Windows built-in tool which you can use to repartition and format your hard drive. Here is how you can do it:

Click “OK” in the confirmation box to initiate the formatting process.

Since the above steps deal with the partitioning and formatting of HDD, there is a possibility that you make a mistake and format a hard drive whose data is important to you resulting irreversible data loss. Even professionals can make mistakes, which is why Remo Recover provides an excellent guide to performing accidental format recovery within few simple steps.

Hi, are you finding hard to find the location of scanpst.exe, an inbox repair tool on your Outlook 2016? Do you want to learn how to run the inbox repair tool to repair the corrupted or damaged Outlook 2016 PST file? If so, then this article would be very useful for you, as we guide you to find the location of scanpst.exe and how to run it on Outlook 2016.

What is the necessity of Outlook’s Inbox Repair Tool?

When the PST file of your Outlook 2016 is corrupted or damaged, it becomes necessary for you to find Inbox Repair Tool, scanpst.exe. Scanpst.exe is Outlook’s built-in repair utility that can fix damaged PST file and turn it healthy. Scanpst.exe performs the repair process by checking for the integrity errors and if present, removes them to give you error free Outlook data file. It is a kind of first-aid PST repair utility provided by Microsoft in its proprietary Windows Outlook desktop email client. Its function is to scan the damaged PST file and subsequently fix the file.

Though the location of this Inbox Repair Tool is fixed and same by default depending on the version of Outlook and Windows, like others, you may be unaware of it. In older versions of Outlook such as Outlook 2007, one can access the tool in a quite easy way through Outlook/Office Diagnostics feature. But, the newer version of Outlook, say 2016, it is considerably difficult to run the tool.

Hence, through this post, the location of scanpst.exe in Outlook 2016 is revealed. Once the location is known, one can easily run the tool to get the personal folders file repaired. Consequently, you will be able to access the data items such as emails, its attachments, calendar events, contacts, tasks, journals, and other data files that went inaccessible due to corrupted PST file.

Where is scanpst.exe located in Outlook 2016?

The location of scanpst.exe in Outlook 2016 is located as follows:

For Click-to-Run installation on a 64-bit machine: <C>\Program Files9x86)Microsoft Office\root\Office16

Once you found out the location of scanpst.exe, you should run it by double-clicking the file. On double-clicking the file, a window will popup requesting you to select the corrupted PST file that you want to scan. Next, you must browse the Outlook’s Personal Folders file, and click on the Start tab to scan the selected PST file. With this, the errors in the file are eliminated, and the file is fixed, provided the file suffers minor corruption.

However, if the corruption is severe to the PST file, then scanpst.exe may not fix the issue. What can you do if scanpst.exe doesn’t fix the problem? Need not worry! It is not at all a big deal, as many third party tools are available online to fix severely corrupted Outlook PST file. Among various third party repair tools, Remo Repair Outlook (PST) program is efficient and effective in terms of quality as well as cost. This tool supports all versions of Outlook including Outlook 2016, Outlook 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, and 2000 versions of MS Outlook. Remo Repair Outlook software provides free demo version for its users to evaluate it before purchase. So, straightaway download and install the free version of this tool on your Windows PC, and perform the below-mentioned steps.

Step 2: In the next screen, choose suitable scanning option among “Normal Scan” and “Smart Scan” and Browse the location of your choice where you want to save the repaired PST file.

Step 3: The tool starts the repairing process, and once it finishes the repairing process, you are allowed to Preview the repaired file in the folder list.

If the tool reaches your expectation level, then activate its full version and get repaired the corrupted or damaged PST file with ease. This software creates a new healthy repaired PST file, which you can save at your desired location.

If you have got a Word document that contains sensitive data that you don’t want anyone to view or modify, then you need to lock down your files with a strong password. MS Word comes with built-in password protection capabilities to every version. The following method guide users about password protecting their documents.

Procedure to add protection in your Word file

In an open Word document, go to ‘File’ and click ‘Info’ tab then select ‘Protect Document’. You will see many options. To know how to use each option in order to protect your file, please refer the below content:

Mark as Final: When a Word file is marked as “Final”, the document becomes read-only. Once you select ‘mark as final’ option, all the editing, typing and proofing marks will either turned off or disabled which in turn makes your document read-only. It also helps prevent readers or reviewers from making any unintended changes to your document.

Encrypt with password: When your document is shared on a network or your computer has multiple users and you don’t want to share it with others then you can use this option. Click on ‘Encrypt with Password’ option, then ‘Encrypt Document’ window appears asking for a password. In the ‘Password’ box, enter a password and then re-enter it again when prompted. Now, your document will be protected with a password.

Restrict Editing: This option can control what type of changes or modifications can be made to the Word document. Once you select ‘Restrict Editing’ icon, you will find these options:

Formatting restrictions- Once selected this tab; it can reduce the formatting options and preserve a look and feel. Also, click on ‘Settings’ tab to choose which styles are enabled.

Editing restrictions: With this choice, you can control how the document can be edited or you can entirely disable editing. Click on ‘More users’ or ‘Exceptions’ to select the users who can edit.

Start enforcement: When you select this option, you will be prompted with a confirmation dialog box. Just click on ‘Yes, Start Enforcing Protection’ and choose either ‘password protection’ or ‘user authentication’ option. In addition, you can add or remove editors who have restricted permissions just by clicking ‘Restrict permission’.

Add a digital signature: Once you click ‘Add a digital signature’, you can add a visible or invisible digital signature to protect your document. The digital signatures authenticate the digital information like documents, emails, and macros with the aid of computer cryptography.

Therefore, the above-explained options will help you to protect your Word document. While accomplishing this, you might accidentally delete your important document. In such case, you can make use of Remo Recover tool which will provide a step-by-step tutorial on how to recover deleted Word files in an easy way. It supports all versions of MS Word including 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007.

At times, you need to shrink the partition for creating a new volume to store your data or to extend the existing partition because they are not big enough. When you first start to use your computer, it doesn’t have a perfect disk partitioning. So you need to resize the partition in order to get a better use of the entire space.

There are many methods to shrink a volume. In this post, we will show you how to use Diskpart to shrink partition at the command prompt with syntax.

Steps on how to shrink partition using Diskpart command line

Step 1: Click “Start” icon or hold “WIN+R” and enter “cmd” to open the command line prompt.

Step 2: Right-click on the command line prompt and select “Run as Administrator”.

Step 3: Enter “list volume” without the double quotes to list the number of volumes.

Step 4: Enter “select volume n” to choose the volume that you want to shrink.

Step 5: Enter “shrink desired=size” in order to shrink the selected volume.

After completing the above steps, you will shrink partition successfully with Diskpart. In case, if you get a shrink error and lost all your partitions that contain vital data then remember there is a partition recovery tool from Remo Recover to assist you.

Just read it further to understand how partition recovery is achieved

Remo Recover is inbuilt with powerful algorithms that perform recovery of lost or deleted partition with ease. This software enables you to recover corrupted, damaged and inaccessible partition. It supports the recovery of partitions from NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, FAT16 and ExFAT. Just download the free trial version of the software and launch Remo Recover tool. Click on Drive Recovery option and you will be prompted to select the drive for partition recovery. Once the scanning process is completed, you can view the list of files/folders and select the required ones for saving.

Do’s and don’ts before you perform partition recovery

Do not install the partition recovery software on the same disk from where you lost partitions.

Do remember to maintain an additional backup of your important data on multiple devices.

Many-a-times, restore operation proves to be lifesaving in both server and client systems. There are several instances where one opts to go for a system restore. It could be a situation where the server system is unable to start due to some bad configurations – replace the server or the drive – unable to remove the virus that intruded the PC etc.

There are a set of ways through which you can restore your server’s system drive. If you have a proper backup then you can restore your server drive via the installation media (that came with your server manufacturer).

Procedure to restore Server using the Windows Server Installation media

Restart the server system then press any key to start the server from the inserted DVD

Windows Server then starts to load the files

Choose appropriate languages and preferences then click on Next\

Now select Repair your computer option

A page appears to Choose an option, click on Troubleshoot

A System Image Recovery window then appears, pick your current server system

You can see a wizard to re-image your system

Up next the screen prompts you to Select a system image backup

Select the latest server backup and the system will be restored to this selected restore point

Choose one of the options: Use the latest available system image (recommended) and Select a system image

Press on Next. Follow the instructions to complete the drive restoration process

At end of the complete restoration procedure, remove the installation media from the server system

Restart the Serer computer

With an installation, it is also possible in client systems to restore the drive data at critical instances. However, at minor instances as file deletions, you need not go through all these procedures. You can simply recover using file restoration software. When it happened to me, I found Windows Server 2008 deleted file recovery solution with Remo Recover tool. This program is also capable of finding files that are lost due to various causes. In addition to this, Remo Recover supports all versions of the client and server operating systems.

If you have deleted any of your files from Mac trash then does that mean that the files are lost forever? Well, we would like to clear up your doubt that files are not actually lost from the Trash. They might go to Trash bin which needs extra clicks to get removed. Even if the file is locked or used by another application then also the file won’t get deleted. Here we provide you with handy fixes that will guide you to empty Trash on Macintosh.

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You should check if the file is in use by any other application, you sometimes get an error stating that File is in Use. Simultaneously try closing all the running apps so that the file is no more being used by any of the apps

If in case you are getting Locked file error then you should press and hold the Option key. Finder > Empty Trash. The use of Option Key indicated the macOS that it should bypass the locked files.

If the above two won’t help you in either way then go on reading the below content as the trick discussed here will definitely work.

Step 1: Turn off the Mac system. Hold Command + R while you are about to start the Mac. Hold the keys unless and until Apple logo appears

Step 2: Mac will now enter the recovery mode. In the top menu bar, you should click on utilities. The drop down appears, where you need to click on terminal

Step 3: Open up the terminal to run command by typing cs0utildisable and press return

Step 4: Click on the Apple on the top left and click restart. Now you can empty your trash as usual

This solution will help you to undelete Trash Mac as these tricks have satisfied most of the Mac users. But if in case, anything is found missing from your end then you can take guidance of trusted third party utilities.